We’ll have to wait about another year for the long-awaited Academy Museum of Motion Pictures to finally open. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has, however, announced a lot of what we can expect to see when its monument to the movies begins operations at the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue in late 2019.

“We want the Academy Museum to add to the public’s understanding of the evolution of the art and science of filmmaking around the world — to increase appreciation for this great art form and encourage people to examine the role of movies in society,” Kerry Brougher, the museum’s director, said in a press release this week. “At the same time, we want to bring to life the most important reason of all for caring about the movies — because they’re magic.”

That means they’ll have something about the movies for everybody, from history buffs and popular film lovers to those with more interest in the international scope of cinema and the artistic possibilities of moving images.

And the Oscars, of course. The museum will have a whole exhibit dedicated to the academy’s primary enterprise.

The main long-term exhibition, the working title of which is “Where Dreams Are Made: A Journey Inside the Movies,” will cover two floors and more than 30,000 square feet of the old May Company building, now called the Saban Building. It will include a “Wizard of Oz” making-of installation, walks through 19th Century precursors and the early days of movies by the likes of France’s Lumiere brothers and Georges Melies, and examinations of how visual storytelling techniques developed and how Hollywood and other filmmaking movements here and around the world codified it all into popular entertainment and, sometimes, cultural expression.

After takes on the studio system, Soviet montage and Italian Neorealism, a simulation of the Stargate trip sequence from Stanley Kubrick’s mind-and-artform-altering “2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968) will lead visitors into the exhibit’s Imaginary World section. That’s basically all things special effects and fantastic that the movies have evolved into.

Japanese anime master Hayao Miyazaki, subject of the first temporary exhibition at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Photo courtesy AMPAS.

Speaking of fantastic, the Academy Museum’s inaugural temporary exhibition will be the first major American display (200-plus items) of work by the beloved Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki (“Spirited Away,” “Howl’s Moving Castle,” “The Wind Rises”), in collaboration with his anime company, Studio Ghibli. That will be followed in the fall of 2020 by “Regeneration: Black Cinema 1900-1970,” an in-depth study of African-Americans’ participation in the industry from its start through the Civil Rights movement. There will also be an interactive installation, “Transcending Boundaries,” in the 34-foot-high Hurd Gallery by Tokyo’s interdisciplinary art collective teamLab.

The 288-seat Ted Mann Theater and the 1,000-seat David Geffen Theater in the adjoining, new Renzo Piano-designed Sphere Building will host tons of screenings, lectures, special events and the like.

In active development since 2012, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will be L.A.’s first such institution dedicated to the city’s signature industry.

“It’s been 90 years since the founders of the Academy proposed creating a museum of film in Los Angeles,” AMPAS CEO Dawn Hudson said in the press release. “How thrilling to be able to deliver on that dream. The Museum’s exhibitions are as expansive and imaginative as the movies we love. With its piazza and open spaces, the Museum will be a gathering place for film lovers and will invite people from all over the world to re-experience and deepen our collective love of this art form, accessible to all.”

Bob Strauss has been covering film at the L.A. Daily News since 1989. He wouldn't say the movies have gotten worse in that time, but they do keep getting harder to love. Fortunately, he still loves them.